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  1. I wonder how much it would cost to ship over there? I could get 5 million for it in Los Angeles, Okies love going to California, lol
  2. Ah, some of the crustier stuff is the most interesting, love the wench, lol
  3. It looks like your in a parade running for Parliament, lol
  4. What model Wheel Horse and rotovator?
  5. I think I have a fetish for rubber, that's the only way I can explain it. I wait for the UPS or FEDEX guy for hours when I know I'm getting new tires. It's a co-morbidity attribute of the tractor collecting hobby sickness. I'm sure its in the DSM-V.
  6. All the exterior walls are concrete block with a brick facade, 14 inches of masonry in all. The builder of the home was the Corps of Engineers director that built the large lake a few miles away, from the look of the Corps offices and the house, I believe he purloined most of the materials and probably the labor as well. I've been here almost 20 years on a 25 year lease at 500 per month, next year I'm purchasing the 20 acres and house with the owner carrying the note and giving me a large credit on the years I've leased as a down payment, total loan should be around 150,000.
  7. It keeps me in shape and calm to work. I brushed all the oil primer on the under hangs and fascia, then caulked the cracks and repaired some peeling wood. Two coats of satin exterior and wrought iron paint on the post in front. All this took me 10 hours total on three consecutive days. I've been painting for over 30 years, I don't practice anymore, lol
  8. I said garden, but meant yard, i think a yard is a garden over in England, in Oklahoma and Texas a yard is where you park your boat , truck, camper, 4 wheelers and grill
  9. Beautiful job on the Pincor, I don't know how you guys find these old engines. Happy to see someone saving them though. BTW, strange question, what is the ground cover you have growing there in the garden?
  10. Thanks for posting the pictures, really nice. I like the old Roper as well as the Wheel Horse Herd!
  11. She was a beauty http://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-vulcans-retires-after-55-years-of-servi-1715162689
  12. WOW, Guinness is served in small bottles over there, lol
  13. I cant help myself, I go for new tires every time, I even pay to have them mounted. This may seem unbelievable (it was to me), but most major tires stores will NOT mount a used tire of ANY kind, on a mower, car, or trailer wheel. In fact Walmart will not mount 2 new tires on the rear of a car without mounting two new ones on the front, They say its the law. I pay 27.00 for a 4.00-8 or a 16x6.50-8 so it doesn't pay to mess with used tires, especially if you have to pay to mount them. Around here tubes cost 10.00 with tax and most come from China and will pop quicker than a dime store balloon. One thing about buying new is at my age they will last a lifetime.
  14. Too bad both 1962 Bolens RAMs are missing the pulley covers, at least on one side, there almost irreplaceable.
  15. Super pics, I like the decals, Pumpkin Pub and John Deere were good ones
  16. That is a nice Spitfire, I'd love to just get a chance to drive it in the country
  17. maybe fish and chips or bangers for the Horse driver, and might as well add some ale as well
  18. Thanks Andrew. The soil is good, lots of manure and compost from leaves, grass, etc. The climate here is very adverse, we have a small window that may be warm enough in early spring to plant, but may not be either. In late spring, May and June, we can get up to 20-30 inches of rain, or almost none at all. After June through September the heat usually averages in the low 90s F many times closer to 100. I am going to try and plant in mid to late August since we never get a freeze before late in November, and the weather starts to cool down.. I love using these bigger machines, the taller wheels and tires really help when working in loose soil.
  19. As soldiers we are an extension of our nation, and in such we lose certain rights, the rights to pick our fights for one. I was in the Infantry from 1975-1982 and Americas foreign policy in Central America was horrible, I served there for some time as one of supposedly only 150 American military advisers. What a joke there were thousands of US military down there training US supported dictators in various Central American countries. The American military was supposed to train their Army to fight their own people. I couldn't say much and truthfully it took a little while for me to understand what was really going on, some things I wish I never found out. Most wars are like this, but never blame the soldier, he has but one duty; to his Country. The Allies lost over 5 million men in World War 1, about 3 million in World War 2, the loss of life is staggering, the loss to the world is unimaginable.
  20. very nice trailer with pivoting front. I must say though, your going a little cheap on air in the right front, lol
  21. The rain washed out my garden, but I have plenty of time for another so I plowed and disked, in a couple of days I'll till
  22. If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. There shall be in that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends, and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. A sonnet written by Rupert Brooke after enlisting in the military during the Great War that seems to say what every soldier feels fighting on foreign soil, that if one must fall in that soil, away from home, it becomes sovereign soil paid for in blood.
  23. Glad you had a good day, a man should always celebrate the day the earth was gifted with his presence, lol
 
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